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Re: Java left shift and right shift operators.

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java left shift and right shift operators.
Date	2011-04-27 08:42 -0400
Organization	albasani.net
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Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>>  Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>> Lew  wrote:
>>>> Sanny, please attribute your citations.
>>>> Sanny wrote: [sic*]
>>>>>>>> Is there [...]
>>>> Eric Sosman wrote: [sic*]
>>>>>> Let me [...]
>>>> Sanny wrote:
>>>>> I didnt [...]
>>> *: Two of three attributions (intendly?) wrongly indented.
>>> Lew, please indent attributions with the correct number of ">"s.
>> Obviously you neglected to see how far back these quotes came.  The
>> indentations were correct.  Check again.

[Andreas]
> I said they were wrongly *indented*, not that they were wrongly placed.
>
> As I explained already once, a snippet like this:
>
>     Eric Sosman wrote:
>     >>  Let me [...]
>
> does NOT say, that the words "Let me" were Eric's, but instead implies,
> that Eric Sosman had quoted someone who wrote those words, because there
> are two levels difference in indentation.

TFB, dude.

> Had you instead written:
>     >  Eric Sosman wrote:
>     >>  Let me [...]
> it would have been correct and remained clear in further followups,
> each adding another ">" infront of all the lines (except the new
> initial attribution line).
>
> PS: there was another [sic] in my post, though: the word "intendedly"
>    had unnoticedly lost one of its "ed"s.
>
> PPS: The higher the need to strictly clarify who wrote what, the lower
>    really the use of contributing to that particular subthread. :-)

Fuck that.  I'm sticking with the indentation Thunderbird gives me, and the 
occasional reinforcement with reminders of whose speaking.  Work it out or 
don't read it, I don't care which.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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                Re: Java left shift and right shift operators. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-27 08:42 -0400
                Re: Java left shift and right shift operators. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-04-27 14:03 +0000
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